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KNIT JACKET. 'No. 294,637.:

Patented Mar. 4, 1884.

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OTTO KREISEIJ, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

KNIT JACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,637, dated March 4,1884.

Application filed January 7, 1884. (No model.)

IO The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a diagram showing separately the several parts which comprise the jacket. Fig. 2 is a view of the complete jacket.

The object of the invention is to provide what may be called a full regular made j acketthat is, one without cuts made in the fabrictheshoulder and neckparts of which will fit well about the neck without liability to excessive stretching, and the armhole of which will be elastic where the sleeve and body join.

The letter A designates the back piece of the jacket knit separately. The stitches or meshes, like ordinary cardigan jackets, are in 2 5 straight parallel rows, forming ribs, (indicated only on one side of Fig. 2,) extending up and down, and this is the case with all the parts of the jackets.

The letter b designates th neck'band- *e- 0 c, the t wo side-seam ec ges, and (Z the diagonal shofilder-seam edges. These, as well as the edges of all the other parts of the jacket, are selvage-edges.

Extending parallel with the diagonal shoul- 5 der-seam edges are two or three stay-rows of ribs, (P, which serve to restrict the stretch of the fabric at that point, making said edge nonstretching. Each front iece E is connected to grief tires emes by k nit st1 c es 9,; An sidse'aiged'gie'c of the front piece, and Fill tinue alongone' edge, 0 of the sleeve-piece.

. These rows of stitches g, which continue from one of thebody pieces to one of the sleevepieces, come at the armhole at the joinderof the sleeve and body, as seen in Fig. 2. The front piece, E, hasatop or shoulder seam edge, (1, from which extends a diagonalneckband-edge, b, parallel with which latter are two or three stay rows or ribs, 11 to prevent the fabric atthat point from stretching and making said edge non-stretching. On the opposite side is the a p hgle-edge 71, extending as far as the continuous knit fabric connection 9. The sleeves are each made of asingle piece, F, which, as already described, are connected to the front piece by a continuous connection. In practice the front piece may be made first, and then stitches at the point 9 of those rows which extend along the side-seam edge 0 may be taken up, and from said point, as a start, the sleeve-piece may be knit. Thus the con tinuous rows are integral with both body and sleeve. armhole-edge, h, and the wristband k.

As before stated, all the edges are selvageno cuts are made in the knit fabric-and when the separately-knit pieces are finished theyshoulder and neck parts, and from this 0011 struction a good fit about the neck of the wearer is insured. Y The angle formed on the sleeve-piece by the edges h and i is attached to the side-seam edge a of the back at the point where it touches in Fig. 1, and part of the armhole-edge h of the sleeve joins the said edge 0 and part of the armhole h of the front piece. The two edges '5 of the sleeve join, also, the edges of the wristband; The edge 0 of the back and the edge 0 of the front join. After all the parts have been put together, the bor: der n is crocheted along the edge of each front and about the neck, and thus the ordinary The sleeve-piece has two edges, 1', an i binding usually employed is dispensed with,

The wristbands IOO partly by the continuous knit-fabric connection 9, which is elastic.

The continuous rows of knit stitches form a portion of the armhole, and thereby the armhole has the desired elasticity, lacking in those knit jackets which have their sleeves entirely 5 sewed in.

The pockets 1) are formed by a tang, p, knit integral with the front pieces, and constituting a projection on the lower edge thereof, as seen in Fig. 1. This tang is turned up against the 10 front piece, and the two vertical edges of the tang are sewed thereto, thus producing the pocket.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States I A knit jacket having the sleeves attached to the body partly by a seam and partly by a continuous knit-fabric connection integral with both body and sleeve, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 20 presence of two witnesses.

OTTO KREISEL.

Witnesses:

J. EDw. MoRRIs, JNO. 'l. 1\IA.DDOX. 

